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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Rand describe as a soldier of liberty?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Politician.
(c) Average citizen.
(d) Businessman.

2. What was Andrei passionate about?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Collectivism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

3. What does Jeremy Bentham champion?
(a) Collectivism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Morality.
(d) Capitalism.

4. Rand states that collectivism is dead in which country?
(a) USA.
(b) Japan.
(c) France.
(d) Greece.

5. Andrei viewed citizens in what way?
(a) As piles of flesh.
(b) As worker ants.
(c) As leeches.
(d) As angry mobs.

6. Who does Kira have a love affair with, even though she does not like him?
(a) Hank.
(b) Leo.
(c) Andrei.
(d) Charles.

7. Who delivers a speech in We The Living?
(a) Kira.
(b) Ayn.
(c) Leo.
(d) Andrei.

8. Kira asks Andrei what it feels like to be treated like which of the following?
(a) A child.
(b) A monster.
(c) A tool.
(d) A political system.

9. Why does Kira have a love affair with somebody she does not like?
(a) To get money.
(b) To convince the man to appreciate capitalism.
(c) To increase freedom for society.
(d) To become free.

10. What kind of revolution is needed, according to Rand?
(a) Logical.
(b) Moral.
(c) Reasonable.
(d) Philosophical.

11. Who is the man that Kira wants to save?
(a) Leo.
(b) Howard.
(c) Andrei.
(d) Hank.

12. When was We The Living published?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1940.

13. Freedom and philosophy first arose in which setting, according to Rand?
(a) Ancient Rome.
(b) Renaissance Europe.
(c) Ancient Greece.
(d) Soviet Russia.

14. What does Rand describe as being man's only tool of knowledge?
(a) The mind.
(b) Physical strength.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Eagerness.

15. The chief intellectual, according to Rand, is which type of person?
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Scientist.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. New intellectuals, says Rand, should not give into which of the following?

2. Rand suggests that a nation's bodyguards are which type of people?

3. What kind of relationship does Rand describe the archetypes Attila and Witch Doctor as having?

4. Rand says that no man has the right to do which of the following?

5. What adjective does Rand use to describe the USA's founding fathers?

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